Mental Health Services in Tooele, Utah
Compassionate, evidence based therapy and holistic support to help you build resilience, restore balance, and grow into your fullest self.
Care That Lives in Tooele Valley
For decades, mental health services in Tooele Utah meant a drive. You took SR-36 to I-80, rolled past Lake Point, and gave up ninety minutes of your day to sit in a fifty minute session in Salt Lake. Then you did it again the next week, in February, in the dark, into the wind coming off the Great Salt Lake. Most people quit before the treatment ever had a chance to work, and behavioral health care that you cannot reach is not care at all.
Graceful Growth Clinic sits at 22 W Vine Street, a two minute walk from the Tooele County Courthouse and a few blocks off Main. We serve Tooele, Overlake, Erda, Stansbury Park, Grantsville, Lake Point, Stockton, Rush Valley, Vernon, Ophir, and the families stationed at Dugway Proving Ground and working out of the Tooele Army Depot. If you can get to Deseret Peak, you can get to us.
Eight Minutes, Not an Hour
Behavioral health care only works when you actually show up, and people show up for the clinic down the road.
Tooele County has a long history of being underserved in behavioral health. Utah ranks near the bottom nationally for access, a gap that groups like Mental Health America track year after year, and rural counties carry the worst of it. We built this practice to close that gap locally rather than complain about it.
Therapy Services
Modalities tailored to each client, drawn from research, refined by experience, delivered with care. Every treatment we offer is a behavioral health service with evidence behind it.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
EMDR is designed to reduce the distress attached to traumatic memories. It is one of the most studied trauma treatments in existence, recognized by major bodies including the American Psychological Association, and it often moves faster than talk therapy alone.
Miriam Buell, LCMHC, is EMDR trained, and several of our clinicians use it as a primary approach for PTSD, childhood trauma, and traumatic grief.
Couples Therapy
Guided work on communication, conflict, trust, and repair. Partners come in stuck in the same fight and leave with a way to have a different one.
Evening and weekend appointments are available for couples who both work outside the valley.
Individual Therapy, Ages 3 and Older
Tailored one on one sessions for whatever you are carrying. Play based work for young children, straightforward and unpatronizing therapy for teens at Tooele High, Stansbury, Grantsville, and Blue Peak, and adult sessions for people who have been holding it together for a long time and are tired.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Oral ketamine administered in office while your therapist stays with you through the experience and begins integration immediately. This is not an infusion clinic. The medicine opens a window and the therapy is what you do with it.
Miriam Buell holds her Ketamine Assisted Therapy certificate from the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute (PRATI). For clients whose depression or PTSD has not responded to other mental health treatment, this is often the turn.
Family Therapy and Family Counseling
Support for family conflict, blended family friction, parenting strain, and adjustment after divorce. Our clinicians work the system, not just the person in the chair.
What We Work With
Top Specialties
- Anxiety
- Child trauma
- Depression
- Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Traumatic grief
- Relationship issues
Expertise
- Divorce
- Pregnancy and postpartum
- Marriage issues
- Spiritual abuse and religious trauma
- Faith transition
- Spirituality
- Stress
- Veteran and military service
- Women's issues
- Family conflict
- Life transitions
- Parenting
- Self esteem
- Suicidal ideation
Anxiety disorders and depression are the two most common reasons people walk through our door, and both respond well to treatment. Other clients arrive with a diagnosed mental health condition, a mental health concern that has never been named, or simply a sense that something is off. All three are valid reasons to book. You do not need a mental disorder on paper to deserve mental health care.
Mental illness in a small county carries an extra weight, because everyone knows everyone. Mental illness is also more common here than most people assume, and treating it is ordinary mental health care rather than a last resort. We take confidentiality seriously for exactly that reason. Nobody in the waiting room needs to know why you are there, and neither does anyone at church.
Approaches and Types of Therapy Provided
Your treatment plan gets built with you in the first session or two, not handed to you. If the approach is not working three months in, we change it. That flexibility is the advantage of a small private practice over a large mental healthcare system.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eclectic Therapy
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Trauma Therapy
- Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and narrative approaches
Coverage, Verified Before You Walk In
Commercial Insurance
- Select Health
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- United Healthcare
- Optum
- UMR Wausau
- EMI
- Aetna
- Meritain Health Minneapolis
- PEHP
- Humana
- GEHA
- Western Mutual Insurance
- HMA
Government Run
- UT Medicare Part B
- UT Medicaid (FFS)
- Tricare West Region
Additional Options
- HSA (Health Savings Account)
- FSA (Flex Spending Account)
- Bishop Pay or church paid coverage
- Cash pay
That list matters here. PEHP and GEHA cover a large share of the county’s public employees and federal workers, Tricare West covers Dugway and depot families, and Bishop Pay covers people whose ward is helping them get care. Mike verifies your benefits before your first appointment so there are no surprises.
Care We Do Not Provide, and Where to Go Instead
Being honest about scope is part of good behavioral health services. We are an outpatient counseling practice, and there are things we do not do.
We do not prescribe. We coordinate with your primary care provider or a psychiatrist, and we can refer for adult or adolescent psychiatry when medication belongs in the plan.
We do not run a substance abuse program or a substance abuse recovery track. Many clients come to us for the trauma, anxiety, or emotional distress underneath a substance use disorder while a specialized program handles the rest, and we coordinate with them directly.
For a mental health disorder needing daily structure, an intensive outpatient program or hospital level care is the right call. We will help you find one and pick your treatment back up afterward.
Not at this time. Tell us what you need and we will point you to a support group in the county that fits.
Care for developmental disabilities and complex developmental disability needs runs through Utah family services and state programs. We can help you navigate the referral.
We are an in person practice by design. Ask about telehealth if travel is a real barrier.
Complex diagnoses such as bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder often need a coordinated team. We are glad to be part of that team, and we will tell you plainly when we should not be the only one on it.
If You Are in Crisis
Call or text 988, the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, free and confidential, 24 hours a day. In an emergency, call 911 or go to Mountain West Medical Center on 100 South.
Suicide prevention is not abstract in Utah. Our clinicians work directly with suicidal ideation, and once the immediate danger passes, consistent counseling is what keeps people steady. If you need mental health resources in Tooele County and do not know where to start, call us. We will help you find the right door even when it is not ours, because a mental health resource you can actually reach beats a perfect referral you never use.
“I am EMDR trained and have earned my Ketamine Assisted Therapy certificate from the Psychedelic Research and Training Institute.”
Eight Minutes Away, Not an Hour
Whatever brought you here, whether it is a diagnosis, a hard year, mental health issues you have never said out loud, or just wanting to feel like yourself again, our team offers the mental health support, professional judgment, and compassionate care to help you get moving. Every mental health professional on staff holds current Utah licensure.
Mental wellness is not a finish line. It is a practice, and it is easier when you are not driving to Salt Lake to work on it.
134 W 1180 N Suite 6
Tooele, UT
(385) 409-0363
[email protected]
Monday through Thursday, 9 AM to 7 PM. Appointments available seven days a week.